The Idea of Phenomenology by Edmund Husserl
3 same lecture he characterizes the phenomenology of knowledge, more specifically, as the theory of the essence of the pure phenomenon of knowing (see below, p. 36). Such a phenomenology would advance the critique of knowledge, in which the problem of knowledge is clearly formulated and the possibility of knowledge rigorously secured. It is important to realize, however, that in these lectures Husserl will not enact, pursue, or develop a phenomenological critique of knowledge, even though he opens with a trenchant statement of the problem of knowledge that such a critique would solve. Rather, he seeks here only to secure the possibility of a phe- nomenological critique of knowledge; that is, he attempts to secure the possibility of the knowledge of the possibility of knowledge, not the possibil- ity of knowledge in general (see below, pp. 37-39). Thus the work before us is not phenomenological in the straightforward sense, but pre- phenomenological: it sets out to identify and satisfy the epistemic require- ments of the phenomenological critique of knowledge, not to carry out that critique itself. To keep these two levels of theoretical inquiry distinct, I will call the level that deals with the problem of the possibility of knowledge the critical level; the level that deals with the problem of the possibility of the knowledge of the possibility of knowledge the meta-criticallevel.Edmund Husserl was born in Moravia in 1859 and studied mathematics and physical sciences in Vienna and Berlin. In 1884, he made the decision to devote his life to philosophy. Until his retirement in 1928, he held professorships at the universities of Halle, Gottingen, and Freiburg. In 1938, he passed away. Experience and Judgment, also published by Northwestern University Press, is one of his many published works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780792356912 |
| ISBN 10 | 0792356918 |
| Title | The Idea of Phenomenology |
| Author | Edmund Husserl |
| Series | Husserliana: Edmund Husserl – Collected Works |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 1999-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
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